[newbie] mplayer won't run

2001-11-18 Thread mnu
Hello everyone! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction and suggesting that I use mplayer to play divx. My problem now is, when I try to run mplayer to play a divx (*.avi) file, I get the following error: mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdivxdecore.so.0: cannot open

Re: [newbie] mplayer won't run

2001-11-18 Thread Ethan
sorry for the interruption - but I noticed that the mplayer file has a bz2 extension. How do i uncompress / compile and run it ?? mnu wrote: 20081429.fAIETl701803@smtp2"> Hello everyone! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction and suggesting that I use mplayer to play divx.My

Re: [newbie] mplayer won't run

2001-11-18 Thread mnu
On Sunday 18 November 2001 11:03 pm, you wrote: sorry for the interruption - but I noticed that the mplayer file has a bz2 extension. How do i uncompress / compile and run it ?? You'll need bzip2 program installed. Use the software packager to make life a lot easier. then bunzip2 filename